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Resorts from Morecambe down the coast through New Brighton to Llandudno in Wales provided the wide walk-ways where holiday-makers could stroll and pass the time of day with family and friends away

At this time, local industry was closing down; Bacup, which was off the beaten track, was looking for residents to commute to work in Burnley, Manchester or other towns.The town stands on the young

The cows are lying down, a sure sign of rain, the old saying goes, but whether this is true or false they add a picturesque finishing touch to a watery scene.

This view of the 1935 Silver Jubilee seat is taken from outside the King's Head on the A12, looking down the High Street.

In 1741 the mill was blown down in a storm killing a man and a boy - perhaps because the sails were 'back winded'. The mill has been in the care of the Cambridgeshire Preservation Trust since 1932.

The road system has changed: today there is a one-way system where cars travel down the High Street towards Beaulieu, Southampton, Brockenhurst and Christchurch.

The Kentish miners earned themselves a reputation for being among the most militant members of their arduous profession, before the local branch of the industry was shut down in the 1970s.

Our progress down-river reaches Dorchester. It was a Roman town and the seat of an Anglo-Saxon bishopric, and is now dominated by its great late 11th-century Abbey church.

19th-century race days on Danebury Downs brought many keen race-goers to Stockbridge, including Edward VII and Lily Langtry. Shops and eating houses would be bustling.

By the 20th century, Goudhurst has quietened down considerably compared to earlier times, when the iron smelting and cloth making industries were at their peak.

Just down the road to the west is a Carmelite friary, which is much visited by those in search of tranquillity and meditation.

This was constructed in the early 19th century by Walter May so that he could enjoy a prospect of the sea; however, the South Downs prevented his dream from being realised.

The gaps in the wooden weir were stopped with slats which enabled more water to be directed down the leat.

The gaps in the wooden weir were stopped with slats which enabled more water to be directed down the leat.

Tom Walls made 'Derby Day' in 1952, and when 'Esther Waters' was filmed in 1947 the downs were populated by tin people, who were cheaper by the day than crowd extras.

A view down the hill towards London, with the Wellington pub on the right sporting its sign depicting the Duke.

Looking down the main street, we see the old post office (right), now two cottages. The new post office is in the Bull Inn, to the right, next to the tin-roofed church of St Thomas.

Now, the factory warehouse has been converted into flats, the great Wyresdale wheel dismantled and Wyresdale Tower pulled down, and its stones carted away.

Magham Down, about two miles north east of Hailsham, is where the road rises onto the higher ground it follows towards Bexhill.

Epsom is famous for two things: Epsom Salts, and the two great classic flat races run on the Downs south of the town, the Derby and the Oaks, both inaugurated in the late 18th century.

West of Dorking up on the chalk and just inboard of the North Downs escarpment, and west of the valley cut by the River Mole, is Ranmore Common.

Here we see the heart of what many claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th- century flint-stone church of St Mary looks down on this spacious square lined with half- timbered

To the north of Newbury, on the edge of the downs, lies Hampstead Norris, surrounded by hills and woodland.

It was burned down around 1900 and given a tiled octagonal roof with dormers and a weather vane.